A leaflet on alternative medicine produced by the Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health has been condemned by Britain's first Professor of Complementary Medicine.

Prince Charles has exerted great influence in favour of alternative medicine in the UK, leading to the creation of the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council ('Ofquack'), due to begin work shortly. Now Edzard Ernst, in a letter to the Times, has called for the withdrawal of an FIH leaflet which he says is misleading: the FIH indignantly refuses, and counter-accuses Prof Ernst of seeking publicity for his forthcoming book.